Hi,
there are compelling reasons to develop functionality like this in Java
because the language offers more features and flexibility. However, we
have found over the years that many of our clients do not want any
software that requires any sort of plugin and Java has left a nasty
taste for many people because of security and performance reasons.
Alternately, JavaScript is a lot easier to get into and requires no
compiling etc. Development is much more rapid and there are excellent
free tools (i.e. firefox) for debugging, testing etc) to assist
developers. There also seem to be a lot more people developing in
JavaScript.
Also, this started as a technical experiment ... and in many ways it
still is ... so from this point of view, I don't think it needs any
justification :)
Cheers
Paul
Radim Blazek wrote:
> Hi,
>> another question, we are curious why do you use JavaScript
> instead of Java? Why don't you continue to develop Rosa or JBox?
>> Stefano Menegon, Radim Blazek
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